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| The sale. ot fifty-three old and modern | 
paintings belonging to the estate of the | 
pee Meta J. Conor-Wood, of Philadel- | 
Phia, attracted a large number of coilec-| 
' tors” to the American Art Galleries: lantd 
“night. The majority of, the old pictures 
| of. this collection, which was made some 
\eighty or ninety years ago, were inher- 
ited by the late George Wood, of Phila~ 
delphia, from his father, Alexander 
Wood, a chief justice of Scotland. 

The total of last night's session was 
"$3,777 50, of Which the “Portrait of Captain | 
Power, ‘of “the Naty,’’ painted by John 
| Opie” (1761-1807) brought the top price— 
($350. Ferdinand Howard was the buyer. 
| Thé Knoedlers gave $300 for a canvas en- 
“titled “Tnnocence,’ by Charles’ Joshua | 
| Chaplin, a French. artist. “Landscape 
-and Shepherdess,” by Lerolle, and “On|! 
the Baicony,”’ by Carl Becker, went to 
Henry Rohifs for $175 and $165, respec-. 
tively. ‘Portrait of a Boy,’ by Boilly, 
was sold to Otto Bernet for $160. The sale H 
will end this evening. i 
' The first session of the Dr. Richard Berl 
collection of antiques in the afternoon 
-at the same galleries brought $1,38750. A 
Silver standing cup, or hanap, which was 
,|formerly in the. possession. of Hugenie, | 
|former Hmpress of the French, brought | 
the highest price—$85. 


=e a were- ae ee ee 
ican Art Galleries yesterday. In the 
afternoon the first ‘session of | the | sale 
of Dr. Richard Berl’s” collection — of. 
antique clocks” ‘and watches, old) 
‘weapons, pewter, ‘glass, ceramics and 
furniture was | ‘held. and $1,387.50 was) 
realized. ee 
One... of the. most. intercattie ‘ite s 
offered was a silver standing” cup, ‘or. 
hanap, with cover, which once be-[ 
longed to Empress. Hugenie. The cup 
was sold to Mr. Baumeister for $85. 
The same buyer paid $65 for a silver=" 
gilt coffee set of historical origin. 
The evening sale was devoted to the 
disposal of fifty-three paintings be- 
longing to the collection of the late 
M = Yel The. total was | 


117.50. 

M. Knoedler & Co. paid $800 for: “Tn- 
nocence,” by Chaplin; Ferdinand How- | 
ard bought John Opfe’s portrait of 
“Captain Power’ for $350; the Holland | 
Galleries paid $117.50 for “Ideal Head,” 
iby Asti, and a lovely landscape by | 
‘Riehet was sold. to W. ae Seaman 
(agent) for $120. 


“53 PAINTINGS SOLD ~ 


|Conor- a Art rt Sale’s First Day | 


“From The Inquirer Bureau. 
', NEW YORK, Jan. 28.—At the Ameri-| 
‘can Art Galleries tonight the first half 
‘of the art collection of the late Meta 
ne Conor-Wood, of Philadelphia, was 
sold, the fifty-three paintings r realizmg a: 
total of $3777.50. he sale will be con-: 
‘cluded tomorrow evening, when sixty-_ 
eight paintings will be sold. A painting 
eatalogued as a John Opie “Portrait of 
laptain Power of the Navy’ brought 
the highest pricé, being sold to Ferdinand 
‘Howard for $350. “‘Innocence,” by” 
Charles Joshua Chaplin, was bought by | 
'Knoedler & Company fo Bs $300. Henry 
‘Rohloff paid $175. for envi Jierolle’s 
“Landscape and Shepherdess” and $165 
for Carl Becker’s “On the Balcony.” 
At the same galleries in the afternoon 
iwag held the first half of the sale of ‘Dr, | 
Richard. Berl’s. collection of antique 
‘clocks, watches, old weapons and cera- 
‘mies, the proceeds being $1387.50. The’ 
sale will conclude tomorrow afternoon. 


hg ON FREE PUBLIC VIEW 
AT THE AMERICAN ART GALLERIES 


MADISON SQUARE SOUTH, NEW YORK 


BEGINNING FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 1913 


AND CONTINUING UNTIL THE MORNING OF THE DATE . 
OF SALE, INCLUSIVE 


OLD AND MODERN PAINTINGS 


a Ph tis BELONGING TO THE ESTATE OF 
fee eee | THE LATE 


| META J. CONOR-Woop 


OF PHILADELPHIA 


UNRESTRICTED PUBLIC SALE 


BY ORDER OF THE GIRARD TRUST COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA 
6, EXECUTOR 


AT THE AMERICAN ART GALLERIES 


. ON TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY EVENINGS, JANUARY 28th AND 29th 
1. BEGINNING EACH EVENING AT 8.15 O’CLOCK 


a) 


CATALOGUE 


OF 


OLD AND MODERN 
OIL PAINTINGS 


BELONGING TO THE ESTATE OF THE LATE 


META J. CONOR-WOOD 


OF PHILADELPHIA 


TO BE SOLD 


AT UNRESTRICTED PUBLIC SALE 


BY ORDER OF THE 
GIRARD TRUST COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA 
EXECUTOR 


AT THE AMERICAN ART GALLERIES 


MADISON SQUARE SOUTH 


ON THE DATES HEREIN STATED 


THE SALE WILL BE CONDUCTED BY 
MR. THOMAS E. KIRBY OF 
THE AMERICAN ART ASSOCIATION, MANAGERS 
NEW YORK 
1913 


CONDITIONS OF SALE 


1. The highest Bidder to be the Buyer, and if any dispute 
arise between two or more Bidders, the Lot so in dispute shall be 
immediately put up again and re-sold. 


2. The Auctioneer reserves the right to reject any bid which 
is merely a nominal or fractional advance, and therefore, in his 
judgment, likely to affect the Sale injuriously. 


3. The Purchasers to give their names and addresses, and to 
pay down a cash deposit, or the whole of the Purchase-money, if 
required, in default of which the Lot or Lots so purchased to be 
immediately put up again and re-sold. 


4, The Lots to be taken away at the Buyer’s Expense and Risk 
within twenty-four hours from the conclusion of the Sale, unless 
otherwise specified by the Auctioneer or Managers previous to or 
at the time of Sale, and the remainder of the Purchase-money 
to be absolutely paid, or otherwise settled for to the satisfaction 
of the Auctioneer, on or before delivery; in default of which the 
undersigned will not hold themselves responsible if the Lots be 
lost, stolen, damaged, or destroyed, but they will be left at the 
sole risk of the purchaser. 


5. While the undersigned will not hold themselves responsible 
for the correctness of the description, genuineness, or authen- 
ticity of, or any fault or defect in, any Lot, and make no War- 
ranty whatever, they will, upon receiving previous to date of 
Sale trustworthy expert opinion in writing that any Painting 
or other Work of Art is not what it is represented to be, use 
every effort on their part to furnish proof to the contrary; fail- 
ing in which, the object or objects in question will be sold sub- 
ject to the declaration of the aforesaid expert, he being liable 
to the Owner or Owners thereof for damage or injury occasioned 
thereby. 


6. To prevent inaccuracy in delivery, and inconvenience in the 
settlement of the Purchases, no Lot can, on any account, be re- 
moved during the Sale. 


7. Upon failure to comply with the above conditions, the money 
deposited in part payment shall be forfeited; all Lots uncleared 
within one day from conclusion of Sale (unless otherwise specified 
as above) shall be re-sold by public or private sale, without further 
notice, and the deficiency (if any) attending such re-sale shall be 
made good by the defaulter at this Sale, together with all charges 
attending the same. This Condition is without prejudice to the 
right of the Auctioneer to enforce the contract made at this Sale, 
without such re-sale, if he thinks fit. 

8. The Undersigned are in no manner connected with the 
business of the cartage or packing and shipping of purchases, 
and although they will afford to purchasers every facility for em- 
ploying careful carriers and packers, they will not hold themselves 


responsible for the acts and charges of the parties engaged for 
such services. 


Tue AMERICAN ART ASSOCIATION, Manacena. 
THOMAS E. KIRBY, Avcrionerr. 


NOTE 


The majority of the old pictures of this collection were 
inherited by the late George Wood, of Philadelphia, from 
his father, Alexander Wood, a Chief Justice of Scotland, 
Lord Wood, who died at Edinburgh in 1866. The collection 
was made some eighty or ninety years ago, and in the pre- 
ponderance of sixteenth and seventeenth century works and 
those of the contemporary English School it reflects accu- 
rately the taste of the time. As was the case with most pri- 
vate collections of this period, the pictures were ascribed to 
the masters whose works they most resembled. 

In order that there should be no misunderstanding by 
reason of such ascriptions, the Association has had the 
pictures recatalogued in the light of modern knowledge. 
This departure from its usual practice, which is that of all 
great auction-rooms, of accepting the traditional attribu- 
tions, seemed justified by the especial circumstances of the 
case. It seemed a pity that works, often meritorious in 
themselves, should de discredited by misleading ascriptions, 
or that one should be put in any other position than that of 
judging these pictures by their artistic merits. Accord- 
ingly, and in pusuance of the Association’s regular policy of 
putting at the disposal of its patrons, whether sellers or 
buyers, the judgment, knowledge and experience of its mem- 
bers and associates, there have been indicated as copies the 
pictures that clearly fall into that category by describing 
them as “After” the respective artists. Pictures of which 
only the general style was ascertainable have been designated 
as “School” pieces. Those which could be confidently 
ascribed to the manner of a particular artist have been 
catalogued as “Attributed to.” It should be said that these 
pictures are old, for the most part original, and that an 
exhaustive expertise would undoubtedly identify many of 
them as interesting works of the artists of the old schools. 


Weck: 


CATALOGUE 


FIRST EVENING’S SALE 


TUESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1913 


AT THE AMERICAN .ART GALLERIES 


BEGINNING AT 8:15 O'CLOCK 


MODERN SCHOOL 


ALFRED STEVENS 


Bere1an 1828—1906 


1—A VILLERVILLE 
Bf he rrebs 


1) 
we y) ae Height, 7 inches; width, 414 inches 
/ ° 


PinkisH-wHiTe clouds pile up on one another before a light- 
blue sky over a stretch of the sea off the coast at Villerville, 
France, and near to the spectator is just an edge of an 
herbage-covered bluff. On the water in the distance are 
various sail, and a single black steamer whose smoke curls 
skyward in a long trail after it. 

Signed at the lower left, A S in monogram. 


hd ge hy ee Se 4‘ ue ee > | 


E. NIEUWERHUYS 


Movern DutcH ScHooL 


2—HUNTERS ON HORSEBACK IN WOODS 
(PANEL) 


Le, Height, 61, inches; length, a ae 

ai idiom 
Two huntsmen in scarlet coats, one in gee: breeches and 

one in yellow, are following the hounds along a border of a f 
wood. One rides a gray horse with white face, the other’s 

mount being a bay, and two of the dogs are seen running 


beside them. 
Signed at the lower left, EK. Nmuweruvys, 1866. 


WILLIAM COLLINS, R.A. 


EncousH 1788—1847 


3—LANDSCAPE 


(PANEL) 


a ea aa 
a ne nia Height, 91% inches; width, 71, inches 
| YO hee 


A RAMBLING brook comes into the picture under the over- 
hanging green and brown branches of a clump of trees of 
the right foreground, the sunshine from farther at the right 
lightening its green waters and slanting across the back of 
a bareheaded man in a red waistcoat standing at its edge. In 
a yellow-green meadow on the left, cattle are grazing, and a 
building is seen among distant trees. 


BENJAMIN EUGENE FICHEL 


Frencnw 1826—1895 


| 4 THE SECRETARY 


3 (PaneEt) 


ip po 

| Height, 91, inches; width, 8 inches p : 
i : L- i Qalrrihr 
I | In a library or study a young man in a gray wig/is seated 
at a green-covered table which is littered with manuscript, 
sharpening one of his quill pens. He leans with one elbow on 
the table, and smiles as though thinking of something else 
while at the mechanical task. His red coat is complementary 
to the table cover, and a blue-green drapery hangs at the 


left before a door. 
Signed at the lower left, E. Ficuer. 


F. L. KIRKPATRICK 


AmeERicAN (CONTEMPORARY) 


5—THE STUDIO: SPANISH INTERIOR 


1 os : 
> i aaa Height, 10 inches; width, (8 inches 


ow 
v vy 
A stupio and its trappings are shown in rich fer—do 
and low at the right, higher and light at the left. Here, 
where the light falls, two men in gray wigs—one in a yellow 


velvet coat, the other in a gray-white costume—are examin- 
ing with interest the pages of a large illuminated book. 


Signed at the lower right, F. (or J.) L. Kirxpartnick, 1881.. 


AN 
h 


CHARLES HOGUET 


German 1821—1870 


6—THE OLD MILL 
(PANEL) 


Height, 814, inches; Jength, 121, yee i 
lee oil 


THE wooden part of an old mill is going ruins ations its 
great circular concrete lower story, on the bank of a river 
which crosses the foreground and disappears beyond the mill 
at the right among green trees. Some figures are seen 
in the bright sunlight between the mill and the trees, and 
others in the left distance across flat, sunshine-flooded fields. 
In the foreground a woman is washing clothes in the stream. 


Le 


Signed at the lower left, C. Hocuer. 


CHARLES CHAREVENT 
7—LADY, DOG AND CHILD 


(Pane) 
J? men 
eis Height, 12%, inches; width, 834 inches / | 

4yvtn~7 lr fa 

Acatnst a background of woods a lady in a flowing, purplish 
pink skirt, her waist enfolded in white oe seated on a 
mossy bank, in a pensive mood. Her dog, at the left beside 
her, looks up at her in mute devotion and she looks down 
into his sympathetic eyes, with a finger of her right hand 
at her lips. In her left hand she holds a blue fan, and beneath 
her elbow on this side a tow-haired Cupid nestles against her 
hip. 
Signed at the lower left, CuarEvent, followed by what appears to be Cu. 


J. LEPAGE 


8—CHESS PLAYERS 
AC 


In a studio with its various furnishings prranged 4g ae 
effect, and an unfinished picture on an easel, the artist, in a 
green velvet coat, is playing at chess with a peruked gentle- 
man who wears a scarlet coat, white breeches and white stock- 
ings. The artist, puffing contemplatively at his pipe, 
watches his opponent, whose head is bent in study of his 
play. At hand there is wine and partly emptied glasses. 
A large dog lies asleep on the floor, and with the players is 


in strong light. 
Signed at the lower right, J. Lepace. 


LEON RICHET 


Frencu 1847—1907 


9—OLD WOMAN FISHING 


(PANEL) 


hee a0 
; Fa. Pecan) Height, 101%, inches; length, 14%) inches 
We VA 


On the open border of a wood scattered trees grow/in the 
neighborhood of a small stream whose course vanishes in the 
green undergrowth of its grassy and bushy environment. An 
old woman in dark-brown skirt, gray-brown waist and white 
cap bends over the water, holding a clumsy fish-pole and 
watching the line intently. Here, all is in sunlight. Across 
the background is the dark line of the woods, under a sky 
full of active gray and cream-white clouds. 


Signed at the lower left, Lton RicHet, 


LEFORTIER 


Movern Frencu 


10—LABORING UP THE HILL 


ey, SZ Height, 11 inches; length, Wt, wale 


A pirt road, soft after a rain, is shown as it reaches the 
top of a hill, beyond the crest of which, against the sky, 
there is a sense of vast aerial distance. Up the hill laboring 
ox-teams with laden farm-wagons are making their slow way. 


Signed at the lower left, LEFonrtTiER. 


ADOLPHE DE BRACKILIER 
11—RUSTIC COURTSHIP 


Pee Height, 144, inches; width, 11 ogy A 
a CY. Spd 
(Cuickens are pecking in the yard of a thatched fa 


house, where a young man in a gray-blue blouse, apron a 
slouch hat, and leaning on a spade, is talking earnestly to a 

young woman in a red skirt, tucked-up drab overskirt and . 
apple-green bodice with white sleeves. She leans against the | 
building with her feet crossed, lending what the old mother 
who listens at an open window—screened by the wooden 
blind—evidently thinks is too willing an ear, for the old lady 
raises an admonitory finger, as though meditating inter- 
ference. 


Signed at the lower left, Ap. pE Bracxitier, 1862. 


a HERMAN TEN KATE 


ese o a DutcH 1822— 


12—THE GAMESTERS 


Height, 13 inches; length; inches , f ff ; 
of Ll pth Caller 


A canvas that has aged in the amber Bnd olive tones of ol 
masters depicts the interior of an inn with beamed ceiling 
and red-tile floor, where interest centers in a game of cards 
between an inebriated young gentleman in gray-green velvet 
costume and an older, bald-headed man with Hebraic features. 
The younger man—behind whom sits_an elderly man in red 
—has lost, and as his opponent holds out his hand for the 
money the loser kicks over the wine pitcher on a stool at his 
side and holds his wine-cup carelessly aloft as though about 
to spill its contents or throw it on the table. Two other 
players look on, and the white-capped Dutch serving-maid 
chats with other customers before the huge fireplace. 


Signed at the lower left, Herman TEN Karte Fr. 


fo RUBENS SANTORO 


Iratran 1843— 


13—VENICE ot, Bld Gatlinwe 


Height, 20 inches; width, 1234 inches 
Tue blue Venetian sky shows scarcely a cloud, and the bright 
sunshine streams down upon a line of buildings seen in close 
perspective on the right of a canal. They are gray and 
brown, pale blue and pink, and on the nearer one a balcony 
with flowers casts its shadow in a deeper blue upon the plaster 
wall that in the sunlight is pale. On the canal below, a 
black gondola is moving, with two ladies reclining in it under 
white parasols, and in the distance near a bridge another 
gondola is seen, with people walking on the neighboring 


bank. 
Signed at the lower left, Rupens SanrToro, 1880. 


Nise esate re 


ANGELO ASTI 


ray we en TIratian (ConTEMPORARY) 


14-IDEAL HEAD j 


Height, 18 tres a 3 men. L, On. 


A FAIR young woman, with golden-blond ia apnanced 
loosely in front and done in a knot at the back, and set off 
with a note of bright red, is shown in profile to the right, 
gazing afar. The portrait is of head and bust, the bust 
turned partly to the front, and nude save that a feathery a 
black boa sags below the shoulders. ; 

Signed at the lower left, A. Asm. Bs 


2 LEON RICHET 
ve Zo: Frencu 1847—1907 


15—_LANDSCAPE Vie Ur. Sane 


Height, 15 inches; length, 22 inches 


A sTRAGGLING wagon-road through the grass and around the 
rocks of an open country in one of the wilder parts of France 
cuts the center of the picture irregularly, now in the shadow 
of clouds, now in sunshine, and passes from sight around a { 
clump of trees in the middle distance. On the right a peas- | 
ant woman in a blue skirt and white waist and cap, with a 

touch of red at her neck, faces the spectator with her arms 

full of fagots. The sky is filled with gray and pinkish-white 
clouds—two spots of blue showing—and the light is managed 

over the line of wooded hills in the distance with a remarkable 

effect. 


Signed at the lower right, Lion RicHert. 


GEROME FERRIS 


AMERICAN (CONTEMPORARY) 


16—SCENE IN A COURTYARD, /SPAIN 


Height, 22 inches; width, 14 inches va TV 


OnE corner of a quadrangular patio in a ke Spanish 
castle with Moorish windows and arches is shown under the 
midday sun and a clear sky of deep blue. Grasses, flowers 
and blossoming vines border it in the foreground and at the 
left, and toward the right is seen part of the basin of a 
spouting fountain, with water-flowers growing in it. Beyond 
it are three figures, a man, and a woman with a little girl, 
looking at it. Another woman is gazing down from the 
balcony, and still another is seen against the trees of the 
garden through an entrance arch. 

Signed at the lower left, J. Ferris, Srvirna, 1881. 


po ALEXANDER HARRISON, N.A. 
VA W nee AmeERIcCAN 1853— 


17—LA MARCHANDE DE FL Wises 
/) , 
Height, 231/, inches; width, 111 iné ed. Ai. 


Tue pink plaster wall of a French village house rises 
abruptly from a stone-paved street, its boarded-up doorway 
bearing the sign “To Rent.” On the abandoned stone steps 
before the door a peasant flower merchant has arranged her 
blossoming potted plants, more of which appear on her 
clumsy wheelbarrow at the right. She herself stands, with 
folded arms and feet crossed, leaning against the wall, in a 
skirt of malachite-green, grayish waist and the white head- 
dress of her province. 

Signed at the lower left, Atnx. Harrison. 


Exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia. 


a 


HIPPOLYTE LAZERGES 


Frencu 1818—1887 


18—ARAB MERCHANT AWAITING CUS- 
TOMERS 


% a a (Panet) 


Height, 26 eae 19, inches af lind 
lca floc 


In the stone-arched doorway of an Oriental building a ‘tall, 
bare-legged, black-bearded Algerian, his head wrapped in a 
white scarf which falls over his shoulder and chest, and clad 
in a variegated tunic having the appearance of an Oriental 
carpet, stands with his elbow on an abutment, lazily smoking 
a cigarette. On a lower abutting ledge he has piled his 
oranges for sale, beside their basket, and with perfect seren- 
ity he awaits a customer. 

Signed at the lower left, Hy:re Lazercrs, Acer, 1880. 


CHARLES JOSHUA CHAPLIN 


Frencu 1825—1891 


19—_INNOCENCE 
Ono Weeel s: ee 


a 
Bog - Height, 24% inches; width, 20 inches 


A youne girl of pink complexion, with yellow hare verging 
upon red, is pictured with nude bust and facing the right, 
three-quarters front, her head turned squarely toward the 
spectator but her large eyes glancing far to the left, over 
her right shoulder. A narrow strand of blue ribbon binds 
her parted hair, and filmy pink-and-white draperies bound 
her exposed figure. 

Signed at the right, below the center, Cu. CHariin. 


JULES LE FEBVRE 


“0 
AS ee Frenc 1836—1912 


20—THE BELLE OF THE FAUNS 


Height, 28 inches; width, 191, Bo LUA 


A BACCHANAL is depicted head and bust, her body facing the 
left, three-quarters front, and her face turned full to the 
front, her blue slant-eyes looking downward, nostrils quiver- 
ing and pale lips parted in a smile. Her sandy-red hair, 
arranged in studied abandon, with strands of it blowing in 
the breeze, is decked with pale green ivy and brilliant red 
carnations. A cream-white drapery coils about her arm and 
below her breasts, where it meets a goatskin that she wears 
over the other shoulder. 

Signed at the left, below the center, Jutes Le Fesvre. 


GEORGES MICHEL 


Bete 
J Poe Frencu 1763—1843 


FV. Sahel 


21—_LANDSCAPE 


Height, 19 inches; length, 25 inches 


Overneap the sky is laden with dark clouds, but strong sun- 
light coming through a mass of white cloud below makes 
brilliant a broad landscape of meadow and hill, in mellow 
tones of autumn. In the central middle distance two tall 
windmills with enormous arms rise, and toward the right are 
the homes of a closely built hamlet. 


V{ 


(Coble 


EDWARD MORAN 


AmeERIcAN 1829—1901 


22 DUTCH GALIOT BEATING UP THE j 
DELAWARE e if me Wa. Jia Al 


¢ 


; a0 
es bj uty Height, 20 inches; length, 30 inches 


Tue stout old two-master, with sails bellying, working up 
toward the left in a choppy sea and stiff breeze, presents 
her ‘port quarter to the spectator’s vision and is near enough 
for the green stripe on her side and the colors of her crew’s 
costumes to be plainly seen. She is headed toward a frigate 
bound out, sailing free and looming gray in her greater 
distance, while various other sail are seen farther off in all 


directions. 
Signed at the lower left, Ep. Moran, 1859. 
Mm M. LULESKI 
O. Poxrish (ConTEmporary) 


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23—RUSSIAN-POLISH me. 


Height, 23 inches; length, 27 ae eke 
Tue interior of a monastery with groined urches, massive 
octagonal pillars and red-tiled floor, is shown under a strong 
light which streams in from the right through an open door 
and large stained-glass window. ‘Two fat and tonsured 


monks in white habit have just descended a stone stairway i 
beyond the door, and a peasant woman in the foreground : 
has laid down her basket and falls on her knees, with clasped -@ 


hands, looking toward them, while at the left a sacristan is 
pulling the bell-rope. 


Signed at the right, in center, on the church wall, M L (in monogram) 3 
1840, and on the back, M. Lutxesx1, 1840. 4 


rm aT ak a i NT PP es ed ean aT AED fist hae Oks IM 
"ofr a “yA 


a, 1 


V. A. VERHOEVEN 


GerMan (CoNTEMPORARY) 


24—TITIAN RECEIVING A BOY WITH 
A LETTER OF INTRODUCTION 


ft (PANEL) 


4 Height, 29 inches; width, 5 et inches 


THE great painter, his hair, heavy mustache jee ull (iter 

a silvery gray, is seated by a table in his studio, having his 
chocolate. He has passed the letter on to a young woman, 
and is examining a drawing which the boy with budding 
talent has handed him. Titian is portrayed in black-and- 
blue velvet and fur, with a white ruff; the boy in greenish- 


blue. 


Signed at the lower right, S V (in monogram) VERHOEVEN F., V A (in 
monogram), 1854. 


JACQUES-MARIE 


é ; : Frencu (CoNTEMPORARY) 


25—LEVER DE LUNE A NOIRMOUTIERS 


Height, 231% inches; length, 22 meee 


A woman in black, with white on her nend of an tence 
sits on a rock under an arch of trees on the foreground shore 


of the sea, watching the full moon rise across the water while 
it is still daylight. The sea here puts into a little cove, 
formed by a point of land which in the middle distance 
projects from the right part way across the picture, 
opposite the woman’s viewpoint, the moon’s reflections in 
the water being seen both beyond it and on the nearer side. 


Signed at the lower right, Jacqures-Manrig, 1903. 


THOMAS COLE 


EnGuisH-AMERICAN 1801—1848 


26—LANDSCAPE: CASTLE OF HEIDEL- 


BERG 

gq ot SY ; 
a! Height, 26 inches; length, 35 Cn) ee ‘ ; 
LVUAA - / 4 mits) j 


Tue ruined castle stands on a flat-topped eminence at the , 
right, looking down upon the river which winds through the f ; 
valley below, crossed in the middle distance by a stone-arched 
bridge. Below the castle hill the land falls away in a series 
of gentle, grassy and tree-grown slopes to the foreground. 
On one of these, in the right middle distance, three figures 
are seen, and from the left, before the river, come a young 
woman seated sidewise on a donkey, and a man who accom- 
panies her afoot. 


LL. ADAM KUNZ 


GrermMAN (CoNTEMPORARY) 


27—STILL LIFE: FRUIT AND FLOW- 


nd ERS 3 
aT, U . Height, 391% inches; sola OC ches | 


A taste over whose olive coverlet a white cloth has been 
thrown in careless folds is laden with fruit and flowers. A 
pewter dish holds a tranche of cantaloupe; cherries, plums 
and peaches lie about it and at the right. A tall silver urn 
rising above them is overflowing with purple and green 
grapes, pears, peaches and plums, and is itself overtopped 
by a large brown basket in which more grapes appear 
amongst a mass of varied and variegated flowers with butter- 
flies fluttering about them. 

Signed at the upper right, L. Apam Kunz, 83. 


HENRI LEROLLE 


Frencu 1851— 


283—LANDSCAPE AND SHEPHERDESS 


Height, 381% inches; width, 27 jaches 
| A BAREFOOTED shepherdess in a pale pink skirt a lue- i 

white waist, her red hair done in a knot, walks/ slowly 
along a yellow-green meadow, accompanying her sheep. A 
small group of slender trees of yellowed hues stands in the 
left middle distance, the meadow to the right sloping to the 
edge of a body of water, and across the background the 
meadow is bounded by higher land covered with trees. 


Signed at the lower left, H. Lxerorte. 


CARL BECKER 


German 1820— 


29—ON THE BALCONY 


ot Height, 48 inches; width, 387 inches zs 
oe x. Gob OL 
_ On the balcony of a marble palace—its structuye-mel owed 


with age—two noblemen and some ladies have (assembled to 
watch a procession or pageant on the street below, which is 
not included in the picture. The foremost, a black-bearded 
man of dark complexion, wears a magnificent robe of car- 
dinal-red, with a royal purple lining, and leans far over the 
balustrade, watching intently what is passing below. A 
young lady near him, in white and blue, décolleté, and wear- 
ing a jeweled necklace, smilingly tosses bouquets to the 


people beneath. 


Signed at the lower right, C. Becker. 


EARLY ENGLISH PAINTINGS 


THE REV. JOHN THOMPSON 


EncusH 1778—1840 


30—LANDSCAPE 
(Pane) 


a0 
pre EN iors Height, 7%, inches; length, a hie a/.02, 


A NARROW river comes out of a wo ie: the lefts) between 
high and rocky banks and coursing swiftly. The Woods are 
reddened. On the farther bank they continue to the right, 
after a central opening through which the sunlight falls upon 
the nearer edge of the stream, whitening its rushing ripples. 
From under the farther bank at the right a lone pedestrian 
has entered the water to ford the stream, and he raises one 
arm as if to hail someone on this side. 


% 

AFTER VAN DYCK | ; 

Pi 5 

POE aes Enousa 1599—1641 5 
31—PORTRAIT OF A MAN i 
Height, 11 inches; width, 2 ae 

A maw with the flowing locks Lint he traditional asian 
arranged with studied carelessness, is pictured turned ‘ 


squarely to the left, and looking sharply at the spectator 
over his left shoulder, his face being three-quarters front. 
His abundant hair is a sandy red and he wears a parted 
mustache and tiny goatee of similar hue. His velvet coat ‘ 
is a deep emerald-green, with a gold-embroidered white fac- 


ing. 


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— EARLY ENGLISH SCHOOL 
32 LANDSCAPE ALONG THE WATER 
(PANEL) 


. be | 
ate Height, 9 inches; length, 13%, inche er tale 
eit, on 


A BRoap river or landlocked arm of the sea, on the 1 
which several clumsy working boats are seen with sails up, 
is accentuated by gentle ripples whitening in the sunlight, 
and takes pearl-gray and silvery reflections from a com- 
plexity of clouds in a blue sky in which the sun is high. 
Bordering the water on the right is an attractive, beguiling 
landscape of rolling and wooded green Bee mottled with 
sunshine and cloud shadows. 


JULIUS CHSAR IBBETSON 


EneuisH 1759—1817 


38—_LANDSCAPE WITH CATTLE 
o st (PANEL) 
ahs et Height, 1034 inches; length, 13 inghgs 
: ey 
A croup of trees and bushes rise from a broken mound above 
the central foreground, the nearer ones touched with autumn 
browns and reds, the farther tree still a bright green, like 
neighboring ones that on the left shelter a group of thatched 
cottages. In the right foreground a boy is driving a white 
cow, a black and white one and some tawny cows about the 
farther side of the mound, toward the cottages, and beyond 
him a broad landscape of valley and hills is threaded by a 
winding river. 
Inscribed on a paster on the back: Ispetson, 1783. 


ALEXANDER FRASER 


ScotcH 1786—1865 


34—THE LARDER 
£0 (PANEL) +. yy. rAd 


4a Height, 141, inches; width, 114, inches 


AK: | 
A RED-CHEEKED English woman in a brown dress and red 
neckerchief, dark green apron and white cambric cap, is 
standing leaning over a deal table which is laden with good 
things to eat. A royal pheasant lies there, his bright plum- 
age lighted by reflections from a cloth of a noticeably fine 
quality of white; three snipe lie in front of it, and next come 
two large, handsome lobsters, already boiled. From a shelf 
above hang a hare and a rabbit, over a large basket filled 
with various vegetables. The woman is cutting carrots and 
turnips. Still life of fine tones in the kitchen furnishings, 
and rich notes of mahogany and olive in the wall background, 
emphasize the “quality” which runs all through the picture. 


ALEXANDER FRASER | 


Scotch 1786—1865 


35—THE INN DOOR * 
Ef. oe Height, 12 inches; length, 16 inches 


a 

Tue spectator finds himself before the door of ““The Hop,” a 
small hostelry of rural Britain or Ireland, situated in a 
pleasant lane. A pretty barmaid stands in the doorway in 
an attitude of smilingly demanding the wherewithal before 
she will replenish the flagon of a sturdy villager standing 
with his foot on the doorstep. A hearty old customer of 
Hibernian features, in light mustard-yellow breeks, red 
jacket and blue waistcoat—a rose stuck in the buttonhole of 
his rusty-black outer coat—puffs the smoke of his pipe in 
calm independence, though his own mug hangs empty in his 
hand. 


4 
FF PO a 


GEORGE VINCENT 


“0 on 
Fs Cae Enousu 1796—1832 
36—LANDSCAPE 
L141 
Height, 121, inches; length, 1744 inches Si 
A BLACK cow and a brown one are rubbing noses in (nee 


vA 


path or roadway through the grass on the border of a river, 
just at the verge of a clump of trees that throw the path into 
shadow for a short space, beyond which two figures are seen 
approaching in the sunlight. The blue-green river moves at 
the right, beyond it broad, SupDy meadows extending to the 
bright horizon. 


EARLY ENGLISH SCHOOL 
37—LANDSCAPE 


Bricut sunlight from the right illumines de aware and 
grasses in the right foreground, and throws shadows of 
pollard willows across the green grass of the middle distance, 
in a little lane which curves to the left along a low stone 
coping that is bordered by other pollards. The lane passes 
at the extreme left a tall mansion. 


o2 Height, 17 inches; length, 231, i as 
ae Yer. Kalbdrulhe 


be 


VME ns EncuisH 1763—1804 A) 
\ VA A 
38—AT THE BARN ie TVA a 
| / 
Height, 181% inches; length, a inches (/ 


GEORGE MORLAND 


A corner of an English barnyard is shown on a sunny day, 
with the light falling from the left on a varied composition. 
In the left foreground, in the shadow of the pigpen, a black- 
spotted white sow which has just emerged from the sty is 
followed by her litter. In the center, before the barn, a 
youth on a white horse is about to take a ham which he 
holds on a tray to some neighbor, his master in a long green 
coat standing beside him giving directions. 


From Thomas McLean, London. 


GASPAR SMITZ (“MAGDALENE 
SMITH’) 


nee FremisH: PaintTING IN ENGLAND AND IRELAND. Diep 1707 


30 MARY MAGDALENE/M1¢ WL dn 


Height, 2414 inches; width, 1814 inches 


Sue is seen at three-quarters length, seated against a tall 
rock up in the mountains, her torse nude, a purplish-red robe ~ 
gathered about her hips, and her golden-brown hair, which 
is brushed smoothly over her head, falling loosely over her 
neck and breasts. She looks piously down at a crucifix 
which she is holding in both hands, and the open book of the 
Scriptures lies on a ledge of rock at her side. 

This artist, from the great number of ““Magdalenes” he 
painted—his model being the woman known as his wife— . 
came to be called “Magdalene Smith.” He was a famous 
and high-priced painter of his day, but through extravagance 
died in poverty and distress. 


: 


AFTER SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS, P.R.A. 


he Eneuisn 1723—1792 


ee 
. 


40—STRAWBERRY GIRL 
Height, 28 inches; width, 24 inches 


A cory of the famous little eaerna@berry Girl,” her conical 
basket of red berries on her arm, and hands folded across 
her breast, whose big round brown eyes look straight into 
the spectator’s while her cupid’s-bow mouth smiles, though 
closed. 


Ce) Pee ye 


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JOHN OPIE 


Eneusn 1761—1807 


41—PORTRAIT OF CAPTAIN POWER 
OF THE NAVY 
Le 


i rece Height, 36 inches; width, 2 eee Se es 
Ar three-quarters length, seated, turne diy to the ok 
and facing front. The sitter appears as a man in his young 
prime, clean-shaven, with pink cheeks, light chestnut hair 
carelessly disposed, and large blue eyes. He wears a high 
white upstanding collar supported by a blue stock, and his 
naval uniform with heavy epaulets of gold embroidery, and 
rests his left hand on the hilt of his sword, which he holds 
standing on the floor at his side. The waistcoat, breeches, 
and the revers of the coat are a rich cream-yellow, and the 
captain is posed against a neutral background. 


WILLIAM SHAYER 


Eneuisu 1788—1879 


42--ENGLISH COAST SCENE 


(PANEL) 
G hd 
VAL ap Height, 29 inches Oe 0 inches 


A wuiTe and a bay horse, tandem, are OBE a two- 
wheeled cart which has come to the beach to fetch the haul 
of the fishing boats. Some fish lie on the ground beside it 
and old men and women are gathered about the cart bar- 
gaining with its aged driver. At the right in the middle 
distance a group of luggers which have come up at high 
tide are resting on the sands—the tide being out—and vari- 
ous people are aboard and about them. Their varicolored 
sails rise picturesquely in the still air against purple-gray 
horizon clouds, the day making near sunset. 

Signed at the lower left, Wm. SuHayver, 1835. 


’ EARLY FRENCH AND FLEMISH 
PAINTINGS 


SCHOOL OF POURBUS 
48 — PORTRAIT OF G. COURTENAY, 


FIRST EARL OF DE ae 
me 
ies as (Pane) Me Hal duding. 


Height, 9 inches; width, 7, Ae 


Tue Earl, in rich black apparel, a black cloak thrown over 
his shoulder, stands in an embrasure of a wall of pale olive 
tone, his left hand resting near a metal-bound volume on a 
table whose coverlet is of a warmer olive color. His right 
arm is akimbo, with the hand at his belt. He appears at 
three-quarter length, facing right, three-quarters front, 
and looking sharply but pleasantly past the spectator. 
Above the left center, on a tablet: “Anno 1628; aetate 32.” 


AFTER FRAGONARD 


Frencu 1732—1806 
44-ALTAR OF LOVE I 
(Ovat Canvas) ew elites here 


ee . 
age somes Height, 1914 inches; width, 1544. iohes 


Ix THE midst of a green woods so thick as to shut out the 
outer world the sunlight strikes down upon an open place 
near a waterfall, where a marble cupid sits enthroned and 
blond amorini support a tablet bearing sentiments of love— 
or the oath of love. Before it an ardent brunette maiden 
opens her arms wide as she flings herself with abandon 
against her blond lover, who gathers her to him in one arm, 
with his other hand extended toward the tablet before Love’s 
altar. 


This canvas has at one time been attributed to Watteau, and is let- 
tered on the back, A. Warreau, 1714. 


bo SCHOOL OF RUBENS 


Vaca Fremisn 1577—1640 


45—JUDGMENT OF PARIS 


Height, 154% inches; a 01% inches 


WirTH one winged cupid floating ae clouds, 
bearing toward her a floral crown, and ee on the groun 
holding an end of her red-orange mantle, Aphrodite, a white 
plume in her fair hair, holds out her hand to receive the 
apple which the son of Priam appears to be just dropping 
into it. Her nude figure is in profile against her mantle; 
and of her unsuccessful rivals one is seen from the back, 
full length, nude, against her orange-yellow mantle, the 
other semi-nude in a mantle of blue. Paris, nude save for a 
slight drapery, is seated on the rock before which the others 
stand, in a classical landscape, Mercury with a red cloak 
leaning over the rock behind him, while a black and tan dog 
in the foreground watches the ceremony. 


ATTRIBUTED TO F. FRANCK 


Fremish XVIta—XVIItH CeEntTourRIEs 


46—AN INTERRUPTED FEAST 


(PANEL) 


vA so \ 
ais Height, 1542 inches; lyngth, 2342 inches/ 


4 AY ue ve 
In a small but palatial room five persons of rank and inj- 


portance, in elaborate costumes of brilliant color—three 
men and two women—are seated about a square table loaded 
with dishes for a feast. At the right an ancient tow-haired 
servitor has halted while bringing a new dish, and the whole 
company are individually starting back one from another, 
as at some startling accusation which apparently has passed 
across the table between two of the dignified men. ; 

Signed at the lower right, Franck. . 


ATRRIBUTED TO FRAGONARD 


Frenco 1732—1806 


47—THE BATH 


aT, lid Height, 211% inches; width, /A8 aye / 
In the thick woods of an ideal BE cose ths ah the bg Ward ies 
through upon a retreat where, seated on a stone ice a / 


young woman of buxom figure and merry eye is Bathing: the 
forehead of an infant she holds in her lap, while another 
infant, half-nude, sleeps among robes and cushions near by. 
A gray squirrel with long bushy tail is pictured nestling 
on the young woman’s shoulder, asleep, as she half turns 
toward a fat boy who, from behind a stone barrier, pours 
water into the dish at her side and gives her hand, too, a 


bath. 


LOUIS LEOPOLD BOILLY 
Ld 
Sb 0. ar Frenco 1761—1845 


48—PORTRAIT OF A BOY 
Height, 251% inches; SN hadley es Ro 
AI nnZ (Oa 


Tue half-length portrait of a boy with somewhat feminine ( 
and almost smiling features, seated beside a table on which V 
stands a geographical globe, and holding in his right hand, 
which rests on the table, a pair of compasses. He faces 
three-quarters left but with head turned well to the right. 
His big brown eyes match his mat of long hair, which con- 
ceals his ears. His loose white shirt and red jacket are open 

at the throat, and he wears a gray-green greatcoat, against 

a background of yellow-olive. 


Signed at the left, above the center, Bottty. 


JAN (“VELVET’) BREUGHEL 


FiemisH 1568—1625 


49—THE STORY OF EDEN 


Co i; 
ngth, shea Larnannes. 


y ee 
one 0: Height, 22 inches; le 


On a green mound Adam as he was made lies sleeping—on 
one elbow. Eve, her blond hair flying, is being raised from 
the turf behind him by an august Figure whose head is 
haloed in glory. Near by a pup and kitten are playing. In 
the center Adam is seated at the base of the Tree of Knowl- 
edge, the serpent coiled on a branch above his head and the 
woman who tempted him standing by his side offering him of 
the tree’s fruit—symbolic rabbits gamboling at their feet. 
At the right the angel of the Lord is banishing them the 
Garden. In the foreground at either side are allegorical 
figures, with attributes—at the left, the sea and aquatic life; 
at the right, the land and the beasts thereof, and the flowers ; 
overhead, fire and beauty and the soaring birds of the air. 


FRENCH SCHOOL 


XVIItH Century 


50—PORTRAIT OF A LADY HOLDING 
A MEDALLION 


See ; 
oo Ee) ols Height, 30 inches; witlfh, 24 inches het }} 
a 


y 
A HANDSOME young lady with a Seal r ir is por? 
trayed at half-length, facing the right but Aboking in th 
direction of the spectator—her deep blue eyes fixed on 
something back of him. She wears a golden necklace with 
jeweled pendants, and jewels in her hair, and holds up that 
it may be seen a medallion portrait in miniature, framed 
in jewels. 


ATTRIBUTED TO PETER BREUGHEL 


FiemisH 1520—1569 


51—_SUMMER AND WINTER: A CONTEST 
(PANEL) 


46 
FL OO ya Height, 22 inches; length, inches / 
Pag OF 


TuE artist, personifying a contest between the seasons, has 
grouped on the right and in the nearest foreground peasants 
of all ages and both sexes, in dull winter clothing and armed 
with cabbages, carrots, waftle-irons and lanterns, and on 
skates. The ground and the houses are covered with snow, 
and skaters are seen in the distance under a cold blue sky. 
From it issue men,) women and children, in summer attire 
of bright colors, attacking their winter opponents or de- 
fending themselves with strawberries and cream, grapes, 
tulips and bows and arrows, or sporting pin-wheels and 
falcons. 


SCHOOL OF RUBENS 


FremisH 1577—1640 


52—PORTRAIT OF A GENTLEMAN 


(PANEL) 
“i ese 
be 


A rosust gentleman with an expression that to-day would 
be called business-like—in spite of his medieval apparel—is 
standing facing the spectator and turned slightly toward the 
right, his right hand resting on a dark table. He is seen 
at three-quarters length, bareheaded, and wears a costume 
of rich black brocade with jeweled golden medallions on 
either coat-sleeve, and lace ruff and cuffs. 

In the upper left corner: “Aetatis sve 36 An. 1621.” 


Ved _ 


Height, 4114, inches; width, way fs ft hhirhe } 
Latta Sa 


SCHOOL OF RUBENS 


Fremisu 1577—1640 


58—ULYSSES APPEALS TO NAUSICAA 
bo bd Height, 46 inches; Jength, 74 inches f 


—— 


Utysses, with a ceinture of AP er -sprigs, bee 
emerged from the deep green sea at the right, under’a 
scraggly tree, approaches appealingly toward the daughter 
of Alcinous, speaking the woes of his shipwreck on her 
father’s coast. She is surrounded by her women, who take 
the incident variously, as their expressions plainly show, on 
the shore before a grove of tall trees, under a broadly clouded 
sky. Ten figures altogether appear, the women and nymphs 
in robes or draperies of black, cardinal, golden-yellow, white, 
green and blue. 


SECOND AND LAST EVENING’S SALE 


WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1913 


AT THE AMERICAN ART GALLERIES 


BEGINNING AT 8:15 O'CLOCK 


ihe 


OLD ITALIAN PAINTINGS 


BOLOGNA SCHOOL 
54—PORTRAIT OF TINTORETTO:? 


V7 
(On Copper) UE VAG jf) KK 
Height, 7 inches; width, 5 inches 


mae 


Tue three-quarter length portrait of a man standing, facing 


the right, three-quarters front, his left hand hanging at his 
side and the right resting on his hip, arm akimbo. He wears 
a black suit and cloak and a white, rolling collar, a slight 
mustache and sparse beard, both a light sandy-brown, and 
is seen before a deep green balustrade with drapery of similar 
hue caught back against a pillar at one side. 


An inscription at the upper right, which has borne the name Tint0- 
RETTO and dates, is not wholly decipherable. 


ATTRIBUTED TO SALAMENI 
55—VIRGIN AND CHILD 


(On Copper) eee, YL 
A bisa Jive AR (al 
; Height, 9 inches; width, 6% inches 


Tue Virgin is seated against a gray wall, facing left, a 
nimbus floating over her head. She wears a rose-white tunic 
beneath a gold-embroidered blue robe, and looks down at 
the nude Child extended at full length in her lap. Through 
the window one sees a landscape with ruined arches. below 
a hill surmounted by the buildings of a city. 


hall 


// 


PRIMITIVE MANNER 


56—THE ANNUNCIATION 
(On Copprr) /) 


Height, 10 inches; width, 
Tue Virgin is seated at the right, in robes of maroon and 


malachite-green, a golden nimbus surrounding her upturned 
head, her feet on a bright red rug. The angel, in magenta 
robe and a rich golden-olive cloak, has entered under an arch- 
way, kneeling on a blue cloud. Through a round window 
overhead a dove enters, amid scintillant golden streamers, 
flying toward the Virgin. 


ATTRIBUTED TO CAV. RAFFAELLO DI 
ae FRANCESCO 


57—PRIEST AND INFANT CHRIST 


Height, 101, inches; width, 814 inches 


A youne man in black clerical robes is shown at three- 
quarters length, facing the left, his hands crossed on his 
breast, and looking up devoutly into the eyes of the Infant 
Christ, who, seated on voluminous cushions on the table on 
which the young man leans, His head in a halo of glory, 
rests His hand in benediction on the worshiper’s forehead. 


On a paster on the back: “Cay. Raffaello di Francesco Vanni, di 
Siena, li pinsi.” 


. _ -_ a 
See are eS ees es 


a4) 
r je VENETIAN XVItTH Cexrony 


F Gace VI rhewrn 


SCHOOL OF TITIAN 


58—VIRGIN AND CHILD 


Height, 1914 inches; width, 1534 inches 


Tue Virgin, shown at three-quarter length, is seated, the 
nude Child lying in her lap on a bit of white drapery. She 
is clad in a purplish-red gown, with a blue cloak draped 
about her shoulders and knees, and a gray-olive mantilla 
falling from her head is drawn across her chest. With 
hands folded in prayer she looks down at the Infant, whose 
face is turned toward the front. 


ATTRIBUTED TO MARIESCHI 


Sega Giacomo Mariescui: Irarian 1711—1794 


59—DUCAL PALACE, VENICE 


Height, 1534 inches; length, 25 pla ay ee 
lu C/Af 
Tue palace is on the right and the oes on Ke left, wi 


the familiar neighboring buildings of the ancient city, all 
seen under a fair blue sky in which a few fleecy white clouds 
are rising. The canal, crossing the foreground, bears 
ornate, stately barges, and gondolas are busily plying here 
and there. On the steps and the Piazza numerous Venetians 
are abroad in bright colors in the sunlight. 


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AFTER TOMMASO BIGORDI (called 
GHIRLANDAJO) 


FLorENTINE 1449—1494 


60—THE NATIVITY 


(CircutakR PANEL) 


_ 
Zk b re te Diameter, 231, inches (~ ey, 
wk the ort i 


Tue Christ-Child lies on a hem o e-green, 
gold-embroidered cloak, which falls over a pile of straw before 
a carved stone manger over which a bullock and an ass lean 
their heads. The Virgin, her fair young face beatifically 
smiling, stands at the left with St. Joseph, an elderly man, 
standing back of her in a yellow robe. At the right St. John 
points at the Child to a worshiper. Im the distance is a 
classic landscape and at the top of a column over the manger 
is the date 1485 in Roman numerals. 


MASTER OF THE ITALIAN SCHOOL 


XVIItaH CentTuRY 
61—PORTRAIT OF A PRIEST 


7. Height, 25 inches; width, 19 inches 


Tue clergyman is shown at half-length, standing, facing the 
right, three-quarters front and looking directly at the spec- 
tator. He wears the white robe of some order, and a black 
shoulder-cape above which the collar of white projects and 
rolls over, revealing a row of round white pearls as buttons. 
In his right hand, held across his chest, he clasps a parch- 
ment-covered prayer-book. 
At the upper left: “R. P. Agrp, D. Roovere 
Prior Bodioensis. Antea 


Rector Facontinensis 
Aetat. 42 Anno 1616.” 


EARLY ITALIAN SCHOOL 


oo 
62—ST. JOHN 


Height, 25 inches; width, 21 in 


THE young saint wears a goat-fleece over aie e 
other shoulder and the chest being nude and in a strong flight. 
Above the fleece a drapery of red-lacquer tone passes over 
the same shoulder and is drawn over the other arm. His long 
sandy-brown hair is parted in the center and falls back of 
his shoulders. 


NORTH ITALIAN SCHOOL 


XVItuH Century 


68—VIRGIN AND CHILD, AND WOMAN 
PRESENTING PALM LEAF 


Le 
L< 0. — Height, 29 inches; width, 24, inch ye Lee 


THE Virgin—a brown mantilla draped loosely about her 
head and shoulders, revealing her brown hair and a bit of 
the chest—holds the Christ in her arms and looks down with 
a pleased smile as a fair young woman in white—with a 
golden-yellow drapery, contrasting with a deep blue one 
over the Virgin’s knees—presents a palm to the Child, who 
takes hold of it and looks at it with eager interest. 

Signed at right of the center, Lovvini. 


ITALIAN SCHOOL 
64—“A VENETIAN QUEEN” 


ie oA ne Height, 351, inches eae 8 ,inches 


A LARGE woman with full ae and fad enn 


spectator, with her head slightly tilted over her left shoulder 
and thrown back, and her eyes looking upward—her pale 
lips parted in an innocent expression. She is seated, wears 
a gold pointed crown, and is seen at three-quarters length 
against a dark interior background. She wears a loosely- 
flowing gown of malachite-green, with short white sleeves, 
ornamented on the shoulders and at the chest with jeweled 
clasps and pendants. 


ATTRIBUTED TO ELIZABETTA SIRANI 


Tratian 1638—1665 


65—MADONNA AND SLEEPING CHRIST 


50 
4 sem Height, 291, inches; Igngth, 37 inches 
ais AOI’ U crt | 
Tue nude Child lies extended full length Ci purple-re 


cushions, sleeping, the Madonna in an orange-brown mantl 
and blue cloak lenin over and watching Him, her arms 
crossed on her breast as she rests her elbows on His couch. 
At the left background are rich green hangings with gold 
fringe. 


NEAPOLITAN SCHOOL 
27%. Le XVIIrH Century 


66—FEEDING THE RABBITS 


Height, 28 inches; length, 38 oe Ge lane 


Two children are pictured at half-length, feeding their Fiat 
rabbits on a table or balustrade against a conventional sky 
background. A golden-haired girl at the right has brought 
a head of greens which she holds in one hand while the other 
rests upon a white rabbit waiting for its meal—the sunlight 
falling upon her and upon the rabbit. 


SCHOOL OF CORTEZ 
67—PRINCESS OF ORANGE 


ST Height, 381, inches; width, i) Spevee e 
% ‘ae ae 


THE princess in her prime is depicted as rat er a stout 
woman, standing at three-quarters length turned slightly to 
the left and facing front. Her eyes are blue and her hair 
is a dark brown, bound with broad and ornate sidecombs. 
She wears an enormous fan-shaped lace collar of intricate 
pattern, further ornamented by a miniature bouquet, a 
necklace of several strands of pearls and a chain-girdle. Her 
gown of black plaited velvet has slashed sleeves and deep lace 
cuffs to match the collar, and she carries long, gauntleted 
white gloves and wears a thumb ring. A coat of arms ap- 
pears in the upper left hand corner. 


In the wpper right corner: “Aetatis svae 30. Anno 1628.” 


SCHOOL OF VERONESE 


VENETIAN 1528—1588 


68—ST. CATHERINE, MADONNA, CHILD, 
ST. BONIFACE AND THE DONOR 


(PANEL) 


4 i” 
a Mave Height, 261 inches; aie 37 in Vallee q 
Tue Madonna is seen against a narrow drapery of purple, a 


red and gold, facing the spectator, the Child clasped in her 
left arm. Both Mother and Child look down at the donor, 
a partly bald, humble-appearing man, who stands below— 
only his head and shoulders coming into the picture—and 
looks piously upward at the Christ. Back of him, at the 
Mother’s shoulder, St. Boniface stands in a bishop’s robes, 
and at the left St. Catherine sits, holding a palm, her eyes 
directed at the Child. All of the figures appear to be 
portraits. 


Red sealing waw on the back bears the stamp of the Royal Academy 
of Fine Arts, Venice. 


From Schiavone, Venice—Director of the Academy in the middle of 
the nineteenth century. 


ROMAN SCHOOL 


XVIIrH CentuRY 


69—CHRIST DRIVING THE MONEY- 
to CHANGERS FROM THE TEMPLE 


Sa) any pacer Height, 39 inches; léngth, 46/inghes q 
Lae j 
THe mass of the Temple porch, with many ye a 


columns, mounts on the left of the canvas, the strong sun- 
light striking down upon the steps and court from farther 
left and throwing a corner of the court under the steps into 
shadow. There is a scene of confusion as Christ in a red 
gown and blue mantle, swinging a scourge, drives the 
merchants, traders and changers from the sacred precincts. 


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D, eee Trauran —1541? 


70—THE FLIGHT INTO EGYPT 


Height, 38 inches; length, 48 inches 


Tue Virgin in a rose-red gown, her fair ec chowne traces 
of sorrow, is seated on the ground at the left against palms, 
a white kerchief over her head and an apple-green cloak 
draped above her. The Child in her lap is embracing the 
infant St. John. St. Joseph, at the right, who is also 
seated on the ground, looks upon the infants meditatively. 


VENETIAN SCHOOL 


XVItm Century 


71—PORTRAIT OF A VENETIAN IN 
oo ARMOR 


jt Bee he Height, 48 inches; width, 38 ae ve VE. 


A TALL man with a prominent Roman nose, black hair Lets 
beard and narrow black mustache, is shown at three-quarters 
length, standing and facing the left, three-quarters front. 
His upper body is encased in plate armor embellished 
with burnished gold. His gauntleted left hand rests on 
a short pike—such as were used below decks on_ ship- 
board in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries— 
and his bared right hand, with rings on thumb and little 
finger, touches his helmet, which he has removed and placed 
on a red-covered table at his side. He is seen against a 
neutral interior background, with a large window at the 
left through which a corner of a shore-front with low build- 
ings, a brilliantly decorated 34-oared galley, and a broad 
expanse of sea offer a comprehensive and varied view. 


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SCHOOL OF CARLO DOLCI 


Iratian 1616—1686 


72—VIRGIN AND CHILD 
ke Height, 50 inchals ai 37 inh 

OD ANAV. 
Tue Virgin, life size, in a mauve gown and deep emerald- 
green cloak, facing the left is holding the Child, who is 
perched on a seat or chair-arm and who clasps a cross that 
is enwound with a scroll. At the left the figure of an adult 
is dimly discernible in rear of the Child, and below is the 
figure of an infant—perhaps St. John—looking up in adora- 
tion. 


ATTRIBUTED TO CARDI (called 
CIGOLI) 


Iratran 1559—1613 


73—ECCE HOMO 9), |e 


Height, 52 inches; width, 39 inches 


Cd 


Tue Christ appears between Roman armored soldiers on one 
side and the chief priests in rich robes on the other, all in 
three-quarters length, life-size—His figure partly nude and 
stained by drops of blood from the crown of thorns. His 
wrists are bound and the reed has been placed in His hands. 
The light plays upon the ermine cap of one of His chief 
accusers, upon His bared breast, and on the plate of the 
armored soldier. The background is dark. 


At the lower left, an undecipherable signature. 


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FLORENTINE SCHOOL __—. : 4 


XVIru Century eal age easy 
74—MADONNA, CHILD, MAGDALENE 


ey AND ST. JEROME 
oe kaa Height, 57 inches; width, 451/, inches 


Tue Madonna is enthroned before an architectural pile, with 
loosely folded green drapery wound about the pillars as a 
canopy. She appears in silver-white, cardinal, cream, pink 
and sky-blue, and rests a sandaled_ foot on a green up- 
holstered stool. She looks down toward her left, where aged 
St. Jerome is seated looking upward. At the Mother’s right 
stands the Child, his arm affectionately encircling the neck 
of the Magdalene, whose head carries a nimbus and who is 
clad in pale canary, maroon and a russet orange-yellow. 


SCHOOL OF VENICE—ATTRIBUTED TO 
SCHIDONE 


BarrotomMeo Scuiwone: Irarran 1550—1616 


75—VIRGIN, THE CHRIST, ANGEL, THE 
INFANT ST. JOHN, MARY MAG- 
DALENE AND A PRIEST 


Height, 45 inches; oe inchgs 


Tue Virgin in a maroon gown is seated in the fenter of the : 
group, with the Child standing on a green velvet drapery 

on her knee, His right hand resting on the robe of a priest 

at His side, His left hand pointing across the priest’s shoul- 

der to Mary Magdalene—both the priest and the Magdalene 

with haloes. At the Virgin’s left a winged angel in mustard- 

yellow robes bears in his arms the infant St. John, who 

worships the Child with hands closed as in prayer. 


ia he) Height, 10 inchfé; length, 80 inches 


SCHOOL OF LUCA GIORDANO 
Neapouitan 1632—1705 
76—THE THREE KINGS’ BRINGING 


GIFTS TO THE INFANT CHRIST, 
WITH MARY AND JOSEPH 


of life-size figures. At the left Josep /in smiling pride, 
leaning on a staff, looks over Mary’s shoulder at the Child— 
a nimbus about His head—who dips His hand into a treasure- 
box that is being presented to Him by a venerable king in 
ermine, who kneels before Him. The other kings—one an 
Ethiopian with gay feathered ornamentation of his apparel, 
the other with bare arms and legs but wearing a breastplate 
of armor—await their turn of obeisance, holding rich cups 
in their hands, while around them crowd their varied retinues, 
some with battle-axes which rise aloft. 


A COLORFUL canvas of decorative Jose in nearly a s 


OLD DUTCH PAINTINGS 


ATTRIBUTED TO WILLEM VAN MIERIS 


DutcH 1662—1747 


-T7—THE BIRD’ S NEST 


com Fe Held rike 


es o. = Height, 63, inches; width, 51%, inches 


Two young women with a young girl between them are lean- 
ing over the broad sill of an embrasured window, examining 
and discussing a small bird’s-nest with pale blue eggs in it. 
At the left a blond in blue and white, with short sleeves, a 
dark red robe over her shoulder, has taken an egg from the 
nest and holds it thoughtfully, while her brunette companion, 
in white with a rich golden-yellow robe over her shoulder, 
speaks excitedly to her and points to the nest. 


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ATTRIBUTED TO ABRAHAM STORCK 


DutcuH 1630?—1710? 


78—_BATTLE AT SEA 


(PANEL) 


a4 
opti ERT Height, 6 inches; Me , 134 itches 
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A GREAT sea fight is in aes nee a blue and gray sky, 
in relatively quiet water, though there is a considerable 
breeze. In the foreground the mastheads and yard-ends of a 
sinking vessel are still above water, men are leaping from 
them into the sea, and boats are picking up swimmers. 


ATTRIBUTED TO DAVID TENIERS 


DutcH XVIIrH Century 


79—PAIR OF PANELS: RUSTIC SCENES 
Ae 

Height, 634 inches; 1 Is “te 
Tue people of the conte i r¢ “number of above a 
score, have assembled at an inn yard on the bank of a narrow 
stream—men and women in apparel of many colors—and 


are drinking wine and playing cards at various tables— 
some made of old gray casks—or are standing around BOS 


siping. 


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Signed at the lower left, D T. (in iWon Was 
Height, 614, inches; length, 9 inches 


Country folk in variegated costume have gathered for a 
little merriment near a sandy-brown tavern, and while some 
are seated about on benches or tubs, having their wine or 
chatting, a group of men gossip in a corner and a man and 
a woman are doing a dance-step in the foreground. 


Signed at the lower right, D T (in monogram), f. 


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ATTRIBUTED TO GERARD DOUW 


Dutcu 1613—1675 


80—PORTRAIT OF AN OLD NO ia 


- (Ovat Pane) os, e tut Nn etter 
are a Height, 93, inches; width, 734, inches | 


An elderly lady, her gray hair adorned over the forehead 
with a jeweled headdress projecting from her black head- 
covering, is portrayed head and shoulders, facing the left, 
her head turned three-quarters front. Her eyes are some- 
what sunken with age and life, but her features are strong 
and her expression is not unkindly, though somewhat rigor- 


ous. 
Signed at the right, below the center, G. Dovuw. 


ABRAHAM STORCK 


Durcw 1630?—1710? 


81—_ITALIAN SEAPORT TOWN 


o (Pane) =e . t Nepapg oat ONAL 


3 bs ae Height, 734 inches; length, 1014 inches 


A sroap plaza at the sea’s edge occupies the foreground, 
peopled by gentlemen and laborers, travelers and strollers. 
One gentleman with a sword is accompanied by a lady. At 
the left of the center of the quay is a tall architectural 
fountain, surmounted by statues, and back of it appears a 
boat alongside. In the background, square-rigged sailing 
ships are lying in the harbor, and on the right a battle- 
mented tower and other buildings of the city are seen in the 


sunlight. 
Signed at the lower left, A. Srorcx, 1670. 


SCHOOL OF REMBRANDT 


RemsBranpr vaAN Risgn: DutcH 1606—1669 


82—A PHILOSOPHER 


(PaneEL) 


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oe ANB ae Height, 10% baa ie Cs inches 
AN a 
le Y/Y . t al daradtst 
An aged man, with a prominent nose and Marge fe inna 


s 
erally, is shown head and shoulders, enfolded in brownish- 
black furs and wearing a broad fur cap which shades both 
his eyes and aids in throwing one side of his face into shadow, 
the light falling from the right broadly upon the left side 
of his face, as far as the ridge of his great nose, and upon 
his luxuriant white beard, which covers his chest as far as 
the enveloping furs. With head slightly turned to his right, 
he looks straight and intently at the spectator. 


DUTCH SCHOOL 


883—AT THE WELL 
(PANEL) 


Height, 10%} mches; poidth; 81/,, inches 
vy a A Wii his: 


Aw aged man, with a prominent nose and large features gen- 
whose thatched roof has a moss-green tone, occupies most of 
the picture, rising at the left out of a flat country—a rosy 
horizon seen beyond it at the right. In the foreground at 
a huge well of old red masonry a sturdy Dutch peasant 
woman is drawing water by the aid of an old wooden well- 
sweep, and pauses to look at the spectator, while her old 
husband sits with his back to her on the ground. 


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DUTCH SCHOOL 
84—_ LADY, NURSE AND CHILD 
ay, ee Jo inant, 10 inch 


; width, inghes ¢ 


A wavy in a velvet skirt of golden-brown dnd a short scarlet . 
cloak lined and trimmed with ermine, her head in a white ker- 
chief, stands looking down at her ehild in the arms of his 
nurse, who is seated. The mother holds out to him a toy 
which he has paused in his feeding to look at. 


DUTCH SCHOOL 


XVIItH Century 


85—PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN 


(PANEL) 


ae 


A sound and living likeness of a seveffteenth century Dutch 
matron, of stout build, wearing a handsome and elaborate 
| lace cap fitting tightly over her head and framing her face, 
just an edge of her reddish-brown hair showing above her 
high, well-modeled forehead. She is not young, and her 
large brown eyes are somewhat sunken in fat cheeks on 
which the light plays broadly that are lined with smiles as 
well as with care and experience. She is shown at half-length, _ 
standing and facing the left, three-quarters front. She 
wears a gown of black brocade and a white ruff, and a broad 
red mink boa falls abount her shoulders. 


In upper left corner: “Aetatis Svae 59; anno 1624.” 


ATTRIBUTED TO JAN WYNANTS 


Dutcu: Active 1641—1679 


86—LANDSCAPE: SUNSET 


(PANEL) 


oo ; 
ee f Height, 9 inchés;-tength, 10% fe res, 
Two horsemen, one in a red cloak, the other clothed in blue, 


have ridden their gray horses to a stream in the foreground 
to drink—he in red still sitting his horse, while his com- 
rade has dismounted. Dense trees at the right are in shadow, 
but they give way to an open grove of slender trees across 
which the rays of a brilliant sunset come from a sun just 
above the horizon. ; 


JOHN MOLINAER 


DutcH 1627—1686 


87—AT THE TAVERN 
(PANEL) 


G0 ' oe Height, “TVG - ss Warten, | 


A Tau building with steep gable roofs and dormer windows 
stands at the left of a village street} which extends with a 
line of houses and a church down the right of the picture. 
Before the gabled building, whose corner is an inn, a group 
of rustics are gathered about an outdoor table, playing cards, 
joking and gallivanting—some seated and others standing 
near them. Several of the chaps are offering advances to a 
young girl among the card players, who, turning from them 
—not unkindly—faces the spectator; while other men and 
women embrace casually in the bucolic revelry of the close 


of day. 


ATTRIBUTED TO CORNELIS P. BEGA 


Dutcu 1620?—1664 


88—THE FRUGAL MEAL 


57 (PANEL) 


Eras _— Height, 1314, inches; oa a inches fe 
/\ Iwas 


In a heavily beamed Dutch kitchen a peasant family group 
awaits the midday meal about a white-cover¢d table, the 
mother busied with the last preparations in the huge fire- 
place and the old father seated with his back to the chimney- 
piece, looking in stolid patience at the floor, his knotted 
hands clasped on his crossed knees. A young woman of 
heavy features partly concealed under a fur cap, at the 
left, is seen in profile, her hands also clasped as she leans 
forward toward the table. 


SCHOOL OF ADRIAEN VAN DE VELDE 
DutcH 1639—1672 

89 LANDSCAPE AND RUINS 

Zz ce : eA Height, 12% een 1534 Anches Wy 


Massive dull-brown stone abutments and broad oer were eve 


ruined castle, church or monastery, rise on the left against a 
blue sky with yellow-bordered gray clouds. Toward the 
right the clouds take reflected sunset hues, over a distant 
landscape of round-topped hills. Approaching the fore- 
ground in the center comes a woman on an ass, attended by 
aman walking, coming to join a young peasant woman who 
has brought another laden ass, some cows, sheep, a goat and 
a dog, to drink at a stream at the foot of the ruined walls. 


AFTER JAN VAN GOYEN 


DurcH 1596—1656 


90—BOATS ON A RIVER 


(PANEL) 


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4 Ae Height, Wy, oe ye 16%, inches 
Men in tunics and blouses of We Kad deaghtied 
rowboats in a river, to and from a landing-place near a fe 
wall over which appear the tops of green bushes. At the 
foot of a castellated tower in a high fortified wall beyond, 
other men are rolling heavy brown casks. Cottages, a vil- 
lage church and green trees mark the shore along the back- 
ground toward the left, and a sailboat with two men in it 


is making slow way shoreward, its sails and outlines reflected 
in the smooth water. 


P. BUISSE (or BUISSEARD) 
91_SHEPHERD ON A DONKEY 


(PaneEL) 


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cal es) 


og ca Height, 124, inches; length, uy nghes 

A country lout, bare-legged, with a ears | 
breeches and a gray-blue shirt, has just come over a low 
hill, riding a donkey on which he is seated sidewise, and 
holding his crook in one hand. He has turned with a leer 

to speak to a young laundress who is just coming over the 
crest behind him, her basket on her head. Lying or stand- 
ing in the foreground and accompanying the maid are 
various sheep. The light of late afternoon falls on a broad, 
hilly landscape. 


Signed at the lower left, P. Butssr, or Burssearp, 


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SCHOOL OF METSYS 
92—ST. JEROME 


(Pane) 


+0 
Ke L. ee Height, 121% inches; length, site (SADE LD | 


4 
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Tue saint in red robe and biretta is seated at the other side 
of a long table on which his elbows rest, one hand raised to 
his forehead and the other pointing at a skull lying on the 
table, the index finger touching it. ‘The saint is pictured full 
of years, with strong, thoughtful face, gray hair and long, 
full gray beard reaching almost to the table. The open 
Scriptures are in front of him and other holy volumes in 
shelves over his head. At the left is a clock, near a window 
whence the light comes. On the wall are the mottoes: 
“Cogita mori”; ““Nascendo morimur”’; “Respice finem.” 


ATTRIBUTED TO FRANS VAN MIERIS 


Doutrcw 1635—1681 


93_THE TEA HOUR: A FAMILY GROUP. 
vy, (PANEL) 


ae es Height, 15 inches; Ce. - Att ll 


A COMPREHENSIVE picture, carefully and /painstakingly 
worked out. The five figures, including the maid, are plainly 
portraits, very likely those of a family and their servant. 
The father stands in a blue house-robe in the center of the 
picture, behind his wife, who is seated facing forward with 
one elbow on a round table set with teapot and cups. At the 
right of the table a daughter is seated with a lute at her 
knee, her music lying on the floor at her feet. 


From the Sale of the Aspinwall Gallery, New York, 1886. Catalogue 
No. 81. 


DUTCH SCHOOL 


XVIItH Century 
94—AT THEIR LESSONS 
JO. og Height, 19%, si eatiale tse ie 
Tue corner of a Dutch room, with bare floor, a picture or b 
two on the walls and a few books on a couple of high shelves, // 
is shown in tones of dull brown and green. In it small 
Dutch children with quaint old faces are at their studies, 
and a boy and a girl are both trying to get the teacher’s 
attention at once, while a little girl who has come in with 
a basket of cakes offers the teacher one. 


PIETER STOOP 


DutcH 1612—1686 


95—NAVAL BATTLE OF LEPANTO 


ba gee vv Height, 15°4 inches; length, 22%, ipches 
es ae) ri 
Magestic warships, gorgeous in the colors and trappings of 


a more splendid age, their square sails both white and red, 
are engaged in a terrific sea fight—whole squadrons of them, 
apparently. It is a fair day with blue sky and white 
clouds, but the sun is barely able to pierce the smoke of 
battle which hangs over the sea. Crowds of men are seen 
on the decks and in small boats, and struggling in the 
water on bits of half-submerged wreckage from ships that 
have been sunk all about. Some try to climb into boats and 
are beaten off, and one man in a red coat, astride a sunken 
spar, raises his hands in an attitude of prayer. 

Signed at the lower left, P. Sroor. 
A paster on the back reads: “Battle of Lepanto, signed P. Sroop, 


Holland, and undoubtedly original; formerly in the collection of 
the late Dr. Dewees of this city” (Philadelphia). 


JAN MIEL 


Dutcu 1599—1664 


%—THE HALT )7,,hrx4 


id y; me Height, 14 inches; length, 25 inch 


A company of troopers in seventeenth century costume of 
many colors, which to-day would appear fantastic, are es- 
corting a great man and his lady on a journey. The party 
have halted for refreshment at a house on the right, and 
are about to resume their travels. The escort and the lady 
—who wears rich robes of mauve and imperial yellow—are 
already mounted; and the master—in red coat and blue 
breeches and a plumed hat—with one foot in his stirrup, is 
just recompensing the aged innkeeper. 


B. VON VERBEECK 
97—HER FIRST DANCING LESSON 


Height, 19 inches; length, inches, (7? : 
als L/iA4 Pr LL 


A GENTLEMAN in brown coat, short-clothes and gray wig, 
seated at the right, is playing a violin while a lady in a pale 
greenish-blue gown with an old-red robe-drapery thrown 
over her lap, who faces forward, points to her young 
daughter at her side who is preparing to take some dancing 
steps. A man in brown back of the lady, pouring wine into 
two glasses, has paused to look at the musician. 

Signed at the bottom, to left of the center, Br v VeRBEECK, f. 


i SCHOOL OF TENIERS 
~ 7. bis Durch XVIIrH Century 


98—DUTCH VILLAGE SCENE 


Height, 15%, baie 298, in¢thes 


Ar either side of the common land in an old Dutch village 
is an inn with high-gabled roof, and beyond them are other 
buildings, while in the central distance on the other side of 
a grove rises the spire of the village church. To the inn 
on the right two equestrians have ridden up, one having dis- 
mounted, and joined a small company drinking there, while 
an old man looks out of a window watching them. Other 
drinkers gather before the opposite inn, where a group of 
young people are dancing in a ring on the green, and 
various gallantries are going on in different places. 


ATTRIBUTED TO CUYP 


mes ee at 
FSO Dourcu 1605—1691 
99—_LANDSCAPE AND CATTLE 


(PANEL) 


Height, 16 VV oe 
Broap meadows interspersed with clumps @f trees and water 


courses are for the most part under bright sunlight, though 
the foreground is in partial shadow. Here are a group of six 
cows—one black, one white and four tawny—in various at- 
titudes, standing and lying down. The sun, which is only a 
little above the horizon, sends its rays across the group from 
the left. 


DUTCH SCHOOL 


rd 4 eh Tara XVIIts Century 


100—THE WATERING-TROUGH 


Height, 18 inches; length, hey io: Coster 


An architectural fountain at the right is spouting water into 
a deep basin to which various stock have been brought to 
drink. A woman on horseback is letting her mount slake his 
thirst, and farmers have driven several cows up at the same 
time. A man in a blue jacket and red breeches holds out a 
cup to catch some of the water at the spout. 


ATTRIBUTED TO NICHOLAS MAES 


2 J? Durcu 1632—1693 
“ 101—PORTRAIT OF A MAN 
Height, 22 inches; width, 19 i 
eight, 22 inches; width, 1 ig até /) fp 


A youneé man, smooth-shaven and with ved cheeks, is seen 
head and shoulders, turned to the left but facing forward | 
and looking placidly into space with calm blue eyes. He 
wears a coat of black brocade, with a white lace collar ex- 
tending down his chest; and his remarkable hair—or more 
probably a periwig—of a fine chestnut-brown, falls well be- 
low his shoulders. 


: Height, 20 inches; ar 251, inftes ff 
: le 
THE musician, a clean-shaven man with clear features and 


ATTRIBUTED TO QUENTIN METSYS 


FremisH 1450—1529 


PROBABLY BY PIETER AERTSEN 


DurcH 15072—1573 


102—STROLLING MUSICIAN AND HIS 
HUNGRY COMPANION 


ff (PANEL) 


brown eyes, his mouth open in song and his right hand 
slightly raised as if to arrest attention, looks straight at 
the spectator while he holds his pipes under his left arm. 
At his left and leaning against him affectionately is a 
buxom woman in a black gown open at the throat, and 
wearing a silvery gray-white headdress, who appears to be 
echoing his tone sympathetically—having paused to do so 
while engaged in emptying a pewter flagon, of delightful 
patina, and at the same time eating a roll, which, half 
consumed, she holds in one hand while the pewter is clasped 
in the other. 


VON BULEN 
1083—DIANA AND ACTAION 


Height, 21 inches; leng h, 36 OF de 
Tue goddess is seated in the cenf¥r of the landscape at the 
base of a huge tree, on the bank/of a woodland brook, and 
surrounded by her nymphs, one of whom is laving her mis- 
tress’s feet with water dipped from the stream in a golden 
basin. On the nearer bank of the brook is another nymph 
with her back to the spectator. The glistening bodies of all 
are set off by incidental draperies of richness and brilliance. 
Peeping Acton in a short golden-yellow tunic and scarlet 
cloak is just appearing from behind the tree, his horns al- »\ | 
ready high-grown. 


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ATTRIBUTED TO NICHOLAS MAES 


DutcH 1632—1693 
104A—- EAVESDROPPING 


(Paxzr) pow tag 


4 4 
47, aoe Height, 28 inches; width, 23 inches 
4 


A Dvutcu lady in white, brown and red, and wearing red 
slippers, softly descending some winding wooden stairs, holds 
a finger to her lip and listens cautiously, with a half-smile 
of satisfaction, to the conversation of a group of three 
persons—one at least a servant—who are having a surrep- 
titious nip and a flirtation in a vaulted recess or wine cellar 
back of the stairs. The recess is dark and the group are seen 
by the light of a lantern which rests on a barrel. 


A, STAACHE ( fe 
GERMAN Wy AAA: [ Fn Lowe 


105—_VAN DYCK PAINTING THE POR- 
Le TRAIT OF MARGARET RIUTIVAN 


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Paes Height, 30 inches; width, 24 inches 


Tue painter, in black velvet with white lace collar, is seated 
at his easel on the left, palette and brushes in hand, facing 
the spectator, in a high studio with various pictures on the 
wall and properties scattered about, including a suit of 
armor. His handsome sitter, at the right, wearing a low- 
necked white satin gown and rose-pink loose jacket, ermine- 
trimmed and with lace-edged flowing sleeves, is seated in an 
armchair against a green cushion and looks to her left 
directly at the spectator, her head demurely arched. 


ATTRIBUTED TO PIETER CLAESZ 


DutcH 1595?—1661? 


106—STILL LIFE 
(PaneEt) Gee f, tate 


CO 
- BA Sree Height, 231% inches; length, 33 inches 


A neEaT white cloth, its tone now creamy, has been carefully 
laid over a brown wooden table to hold means of refresh- 
ment. A tall wine ewer with long spout stands beside a 
pewter dish on which a cooked crab lies on its back, at the 
other side of it being green and amber glasses of gener- 
ous size, on a tray. Peaches and a cake are at hand, and on 
the right a porcelain bowl with green decoration holds a 
variety of berries, grapes and other fruit of bright colors— 
all in the sunshine. 


DUTCH SCHOOL 


XVIIruH Century 


107 LANDSCAPE: 


(PANEL) 
9 rf Ef 
ci ve. Height, 24 inches; length, 32 inches 
A sMALL hunting party have returned from their shooting 
and brought their horses to drink at a brook, while the dogs 
gather about their keeper, a peasant. A lady sits her 
horse on a mound at the left, while a man readjusts the 
stirrups for her companion, who has dismounted and is seated 
on the ground. One of the hunters on a gray, at the brook, 
is having trouble holding the riderless horse of his comrade, 
which a peasant boy is slashing with his dog-whip. 


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a A Height, 224% inches; length, 39 inches 


SEBASTIAN NAUCK 
ar BATTLE eo V) 


INNUMERABLE warriors, mounted and afoot, sweep into the 
picture from the left, over a broad, rolling plain green in 
mid-summer and traversed by a curving road. Unarmored 
cavalry in many colors have been vanquished by forces in 
armor and are fleeing in a rout, with spasmodic efforts 
at rallying. In the central middle distance is a hill sur- 
mounted by trees, and under its lea at the right what seems 
to be a reserve company of lancers is sheltered, while a 
mounted detachment of the armored enemy is advancing 
toward them, keeping under cover of the hill and fording a 
stream or pond that lies before it. 


ATTRIBUTED TO GUSTAVE DOYEN 


109A VENETIAN $V Mebdevterg 


oO? Height, 421%, inches; width, 30 inches 


A youtn of rich family, with large hazel eyes, and reddish- 
brown hair falling to his shoulders, is pictured at three- 
quarters length, standing, in a robe of almost kaleidoscopic 
color, which is worn over a scarlet tunic embroidered in white, 
enfolded in a scarf of orange, and topped at the throat by 
a long, full tie of white lace. His left hand, partly closed, 
rests on his thigh, the arm being slightly akimbo, and with 
his right hand he holds a fold of white drapery before his 
waist. 


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cal a ie DutcH 1605—1691 


110—SCENE ON THE SCHELDT 1 
Height, 341% inchesg 1 -A8If, inches a 
rio Sti set paps WE BN Oger 


A sroap stretch of the placid river is Bene on a brigh 
summer day, when the blue sky is filled with rolling gray 
and cream-white clouds that scarcely lessen the sunlight. 
Buildings of a city rise in misty distance at the right, and 
the other shore is farther distant still on the left, with vague 
sails and their reflections outlined against the sky over it 
and on the water before it. In the foreground and middle 
distance, sailboats and barges with many sailors and passen- 
gers lend life, color and action to the scene. 


ATTRIBUTED TO JAN VAN GOYEN 
A 70. ka DurcH 1596—1656 


111I—AT THE RIVER’S MOUTH 


Height, 36 inches, length, inches or 
ie ace 


Tue mouth of a placid river is shown under a sky wholly 
filled with gray and yellowish-white clouds) ‘the smooth liquid 
surface mirroring them with a silver-gray effect, mingled 
with the faint reflections of numerous sailing craft that dot 
the river near and far. Along the left, in the foreground, 
a sailboat and various dories are lined up against the bank, 
where buildings appear among thick-growing trees, and 
fishermen are busy about them. In front of them the water 
gives a complexity of colorful reflections. 


Signed on the bow of the boat in front of the big tree, V. Goren, 1634, 


PAINTINGS OF VARIOUS SCHOOLS 


UNKNOWN 


112—CATTLE 
(Pane) pane 


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ee Height, 934 inches; length, “134, ies 


A FARMER in short-clothes and a high felt hat with broad f 
brim, a long staff leaning over his shoulder, is seated on a 
grassy bank in the sunlight under some tall trees at the 
right, watching two cows—a red cow lying down which is 
looking at him, and a dun cow which stands facing in the 
opposite direction and looking out across a placid river 
which is white in the sunshine. 


UNKNOWN 
1183—LANDSCAPE 
LO (PANEL) 
be aa? Height, 1034 inches; RD. ane inchs 7 : f tA 
An ancient tower and archway of » partly aa castle are tA 


seen on a hill commanding a broad valley, the prospect ex- 
tending to other high hills far away where other buildings 
are seen in the sunlight. A river winding through the val- 
ley, which is well wooded, passes the foot of the castle hill, 
where a boat is being worked alongshore, and various persons 
are strolling about the landscape. 


SCHOOL OF VELASQUEZ a 


SpanisH 1599—1660 


114—PORTRAIT OF THE INFAN 


aS (Paxsx) VAN . eee 


‘a Doh Neat Height, 153, inches; width, 10%, inches 


THE proud young princess, in her wide-spreading, richly 
ornamented black skirt and pointed bodice, stands before a 
carved and upholstered sofa on which her pet dog is lying, 
caressing him with one hand while the other, hanging at 
her side, holds the tasseled end of his leash. She is at full 
length, facing the left, three-quarters front, against rich 
olive and rose draperies. The light strikes full upon her 
high, broad forehead, pink cheeks and large blue eyes, whose 
glance is directed steadily to her left—her dog looking in 
the same direction as at someone approaching. 


UNKNOWN 
115—LANDSCAPE 


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aoe Height, 14 inches; length, 1714 inches 


A croup of stone and brick cottages in red-brown tones at 
the left are overtopped by green trees rising on their farther 
side. Before them in the foreground a peasant, standing, 
converses with another man sitting on the ground, and in the 
middle distance a man appears driving a wagon. At the 
right, on a mound, is an ancient windmill with wooden arms. 
Before it an old man is seen carrying two baskets on a 
neck-yoke, and a cat hoists her back and spits at his dog. 


SCHOOL OF MURILLO 


SPANIsH 1616—1682 


116—NUN WITH INFANT CHRIST IN 
GLORY Fy PY 
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ete Height, 19% inches; width, 144% inches i 
A SWEET-FACED young nun in white habit and black veil is 
on her knees, looking down with a beatific expression upon 
the Infant Christ who is seated on a cushion over a basket, 
looking lovingly up at her, reaching toward her and plac- 
ing a rose in her hand. From the left background comes a 
burst of golden glory, while at the right appear the build- 
ings of a city. 


UNKNOWN 


117—PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG MAN 


2 i, (PastTEL) 
Pe ams ight, 181% inches; width, IY inc PGi i 
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Heap and shoulders of a man with a very hiffh forehead 

and wearing a wig smooth at the crown and ful before the 

ears. He is posed three-quarters to the right but faces the 

front, his brown eyes looking directly at the spectator. He 

is of slightly florid complexion against a dull blue back- 

ground, and wears a plum-colored coat and waistcoat and 

white collar and stock. 


On the lower right: “After Witt De ta Covr, pinxit, Edinb. 1763. 
Copied 1896.” 


SIXTEENTH CENTURY PORTRAIT 


118—HEAD AND SHOULDERS OF A 
YOUNG MAN 


if mal Height, 20% inches; width, 15 inchs (3 Ce 
A youne Italian gentleman of the/sixteenth century is seen a 
facing the left, three-quarters fri is brown coat is 
buttoned high and tightly about his neck, a white ruffled 
collar edging it close under his chin, which shows the sug- 
gestion of a sandy-brown beard. He has an oval face and 
hazel eyes, and wears a cap of the period, in black and 
dark green folds, with a white feather drooping from the 
left side. 


Written on the back, Anprea TECCHIETTI. 


UNKNOWN 


119—PORTRAIT OF A GENTLEMAN 
XViru CENTURY) 7, y/ 
Ty A 


Pig Ne 
aA ae Tey Height, 21144 inches; width, 17 inches 


A cGaLuant of his day, with cold eyes, sensitive nostrils and 
mocking suggestion of a smile, is pictured head and shoul- 
ders, turned slightly to the left and facing front, looking 
steadily at the spectator. He wears a short, blond, parted 
mustache, brushed straight out toward the cheeks, and the 
narrowest possible of short goatees. He is of olive com- 
plexion and appears in a green coat, gold-embroidered, 
slashed to reveal white silk facing, and a broad lace shoulder- 
collar of intricate pattern. 


fog > Height, 28 inches; width, 4 | 


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SCHOOL OF HOLBEIN 
1200—PORTRAIT OF A MAN 


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inches 


In this painting, which has been attributed//to Hans Hol- 
bein, a big man is pictured in head And shoulders, facing 
toward the left, three-quarters front. His coat of brown 
fur has a facing of black brocade down the front, fastening 
high under his chin, behind his full, semicircular sandy-red 
beard. His locks, worn long in the fashion of Holbein’s 
day, fall to his shoulders from under his sixteenth century 
black cap, of tam-o’-shanter effect, which droops over his 
right ear. The light strikes brightly, full upon his solemn 
features, warming the face and beard to sympathetic tones. 


SCHOOL OF MURILLO 


co SpanisH 1616—1682 


121—ST. FRANCIS FERR 


Height, 43 inches; sy 33 dg a ee 


THE saint appears in a golden blaze of glory with shoots of 
flame above his head, a celestial trumpet sounding in his 
ear. He is painted life-size and at three-quarters length, 
seated, wearing robes of black and white, and holding on his 
knees the open Scriptures bound in red. He is portrayed 
as a young man of light complexion, with head thrown back 
and wrapt gaze directly upward, and his huge wings ex- 
tend out of the picture. 


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